Businessman Tom Perkins apologizes for Holocaust comparison

The treatment of America’s wealthy “one percent” is equivalent to the Kristallnacht, a series of racially-motivated attacks against Jews in Nazi Germany, according to Tom Perkins, one of the founders of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Perkins Apologizes for Holocaust Comparison (Bloomberg TV)

Perkins made the comparison in a letter to the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 25. He wrote the negative views held toward wealthy Americans was similar to the ill feelings the Nazis had toward the Jews in the 1930s.

Obviously, not everyone was on board with he comments. He was quickly criticized for the letter and the firm he founded distanced itself from his original letter.